I have a small rooted willow tree. It maybe three feet tall. It was just started from the parent tree last year. Please contact me if you are interested in a trade. I also have liriope to trade as well.

a picture would be worth a couple million words of speculation ... but if the leaves went from full shade.. to full sun when the sun is at its most intense levels.. most likely.. they got sunburned.. and fried themselves ... otherwise known as scorch ... i would suspect that it has nothing to do with the roots per se ... but the plant might also benefit for some extra watering ... if you notice that the soil is drying much faster with all that sun ... PW is pretty hard to abuse to death .. and i suspect that it will recover.. again.. w/o a pic that isnt easy ... all you can do is watch and wait .... it has plenty of time to reflush.. with leaves that will emerge... acclimated to the new sun levels .... good luck ken

I think they are beautiful but they tend to be weak-wooded and lose limbs easily and often in wind storms. I've always wanted to plant one on the banks of one of our 4 ponds that are nowhere near the house, and by nowhere near the house, I mean hundreds of feet away. I've never gotten around to planting one though, and now I'm glad, since the recurring droughts we've had, particularly since 2005/06, have apparently dried up the springs that fed the ponds and all we have now are big bare holes where ponds used to be. We have a neighbor up the road a couple of miles who had one right in their front yard, not too far from the house itself, when we moved here, but I don't remember seeing it lately so I guess they removed it. Sorie, the problem with trees like willows, commonly referred to as trash trees, is that they grow fast and have weak wood so about they time they start looking really nice and the resident is happy that they planted them, then they start developing diseases and losing limbs every time the wind blows very hard. Then an ice storm comes along and brings down the tree onto buildings, cars, etc. If you really want one and are determined to plant it, just do so with the knowledge that it generally is not a long-lived tree. We also had a neighbor who had a large one in their front yard in the 1960s. I loved that tree. It was beautiful and it was older than I was at the time. One summer day they hired someone to come in, cut it down and haul away the wood. I was probably at least 10 years old at the time and mourned the loss of my favorite tree. The tree service also ground out the stump. It turned out that the tree's roots had invaded their water lines, and my dad said "this is why you don't plant willows". I've still always wanted one but likely never will plant one. We have native willows on the edges of our creek and on the edges of our dry ponds and they drop limbs right and left year round. Cutting them down is on Tim's April/May "to do" list. They also occasionally have their foliage devoured by willow beetles (and in the years when those beetles show up there are thousands of then and they devour every single leaf) and some sort of really ugly larger Asian beetle feasts on their wood. Having seen all the problems those willows have has made me reign in my desire to plant a weeping willow. Dawn

I have a similar problem along the south side of my yard, where there are 3 large Silver maples flanking the property line. Two are on the neighbor's side and one is on my side. Acer saccharinum is a fabulous tree but it is difficult to grow anything under the shady canopies and in the root zones of these trees. They're water hogs and have aggressive roots and probably shouldn't be planted anywhere near human structures, septic systems or sewer lines, or gardens. I can only imagine that Salix babylonica is even worse. I've planted Grey dogwood, American hemlock, 'Dark Green' and 'Green Giant' Arborvitae, Forsythia, Cornus alternifolia, crabapples, American hazelnut, and others along this border and most are hanging in there/doing ok, but I had some dieback in the drought this past summer and no doubt they would be growing so much better if they didn't have to compete with big Silver maples! I will probably attempt to do some root pruning of the silver maple roots next year to reduce competition with the smaller shrubs and trees.